Hold makes s difference I am learning to shoot a real 1911 with the GI grips and the short tang. Gloves or a bandaid help for the range. My combat gun is all Wilson parts carefully fitted and well...
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Hold makes s difference I am learning to shoot a real 1911 with the GI grips and the short tang. Gloves or a bandaid help for the range. My combat gun is all Wilson parts carefully fitted and well...
Anything electric will fail when you need it most! Learned the hard way over 50 years of packing iron for real. I use a fire sight on my 1911 and can qualify with all head shots. For combat...
Forum: Our Town
Ad I look at the ads I realize, I'm vintage!
Forum: Our Town
I acquired a shotgun that had rust and stains on the muzzle. I immediately asked the seller who offed themself with this? He asked how I knew, and I told him I had seen too many like that doing...
We had belt loops and for range we ran them two up and two down staggered. We loaded two rounds at a time.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Eig or maybe elg in an oval? Could be An old Dixie made in Belgium. What is the barrel across the flats? A 441 barrel seems tight for an Italian gun.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
First you need to measure the twist. Should be from 2-48 to 1-60. A 48 twist may or may not work with a 45 maxi ball. A 60 twist is best with round ball. If the rifling is not to rough a round...
Forum: Military Rifles
During rattle battle You won't hear the ping. A friend got in 6 Garand rifles in 1984 and we needed to shoot up military ammo to reload. We would shoot a rifle till the oil was cooking out of the...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Good old finger nail polish has worked for me.
Back before there was Cylinder and Slide I worked with Bill and we tunef.my Model 28 and put on a patridge front sight and I shot that loose in three years. Some claimed that the twist in the Colt...
I have always been a Smith man as most of my competition was ppc matches and bowling pins.
I never cared for the Colt double action stacking.
Now that I only shoot revolvers for fun I picked up a...
Forum: Our Town
A carbide tipped cement drill will work too. I wish you luck settled disk blades and they shattered after a few shots.
Forum: Military Rifles
Depending on bore size a 165 grain bullet over 12 grains of red dot is my plonker and a load of 200 grain cast over a charge of one 4198 for deer hunting.
Forum: Leverguns
I have shot and loaded for my Spencer carbine and can tell you that that big 50 bullet has way more punch at 100 yards than the 44-40. My groups with black powder run right at 4 inches at that range...
Forum: Our Town
Whee doggies, would lobe to go to that cookoff! Out !muzzle loading club had a squirrel hunt and feed every year till the late 90s. I miss it.
Forum: Our Town
I figured I had better post this after some missed communications.
First off I am an old guy who renounced technology as soon as I retired. I wanted nothing more to do with so called advanced...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Unless you have pulled the breech plug to see how the drum is fitted I would be carefull. CBS and others use a drum that screws through the plug and is then drilled for the powder chamber. I have a...
Forum: Military Rifles
Try 12.5 of red dot. This works for me!
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Currently working on a Martin 45 ,4.5 hp motor made in 1950. I am lucky on parts as my bio owns Martin Motors.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Working on a Gibbs Far what's on S S
And got a message from Rigby that they used Gasoline Oil as stock oil. Any one know what this is?
I have been using Renaissance wax.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I just sold one and it had the same rear sight as a savage 99, and a Lyman 17a front.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I have only found black in balloon head cases so far. This is with 45/44 and various rifle rounds.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Don't shoot any of the old balloon head cases, they were loaded with mercuric primers and they can be deteriorated at the head. They will separate right at the base and give you a face full of gas. ...
Forum: Our Town
I have not been on in a while as life had piled up on me. We are well and no health problems, but just have not had time to post. First the computer took a dump and the we have had to do a lot of...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |